DISGUSTED NOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR EXPOSES THE SINS BEHIND THE SCENES

BY MITCH NGAMAN >>> A disgusted Nollywood film director has put his life on the line and broken the unwritten code of silence of their Tinsel world by exposing some of the filthy practices that obtain within the burgeoning industry. In an unprecedented and damning expose titled "Asaba, The Shame Of Nollywood" published on the NFC website, Reginald Ebere gives a rare insight into a catalogue of unprofessional, unethical and immoral practices that have become the norm within the Nigerian film making world. They include moral depravity, sexual harassment and extortion.

Amazingly, instead of wannabe actors going into the industry for the passion of the art and the money with accompanying fame as in other parts of the world, it is the direct opposite with Nigerians who have introduced their peculiar and abominable twist to the effect that it is the budding (often talentless) actors and actresses who pay the producers for roles and  believe it or not they make their payments either in cash or in kind but more often than not - especially with female wannabes - they actually pay both in cash and in kind! That is how badly some people want to become famous - subjecting themselves to such dehumanizing treatment.

Ebere writes: "Now, I know that dirty linen is not supposed to be washed in public especially in Nollywood and some of my colleagues will nearly send Boko Haram insurgents to assassinate me for what I am revealing since we keep denying the sexual harassment going on in Nollywood.

"But I have found out that if we do not wash our linen in public, sometimes the stench will kill us in private and Reginald Ebere has never been known not to speak his mind. I have names and I can mention them with hard facts but I refrain from pushing the walls down because I believe broken walls can be mended.

"What is going on in Asaba is sordid; which is the reason why half baked, illiterate, uncouth, insulting and sometimes utterly stupid productions are coming out from that enclave of sin and depravity.

"It is time for the heads of our different guilds to go in there and clean the place out instead of sitting back in Lagos fighting over who will be part of the next dinner with ‘Oga at the top’ and issuing communiqués about how to share the N3bn largesse from President Jonathan".

The Spy says if you don't mind puking this blessed Sunday, you can click here to read Ebere's complete diss on the celebrated Nollywood.
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